Ed Balls ?

[Seagull58]

Ball's policy is the same as the coalition's, just a bit less over a bit longer. which makes it a bit of joke how he criticises it so much.

He is just trying the same scam that Blair and Brown did back in 1997 when they promised to stick with the Tory spending targets for 3 years. Once the 3 years were up, Brown (with Balls as his partner in crime) proceded to sell the family silver (well, gold to be accurate) and spunk it all away over the next 10 years, as well as doubling the National Debt, until the country was just about bankrupt.
Balls is now looking to head down the same well-trodden and disastrous path once again.

 

[Seagull58]

No I really did correct it for you. I wasn't imagining it.

If only the disastrous Brown-Balls years in charge of the economy were all in our imagination too! Unfortunately, they were all tooo real and it's going to take 10 to 15 years to repair the damage, as long as Balls can be kept away from any economic decision-making role.

 

[Seagull58]

I don't think that Cameron or Clegg need to worry about the next election with Milliband and Balls the 2 key men for Labour. Between them they are a shambles

Tragically, there are many voters who would like to put them in power so that they can bankrupt the country again.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Balls - it says it on the tin.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

He is just trying the same scam that Blair and Brown did back in 1997 when they promised to stick with the Tory spending targets for 3 years. Once the 3 years were up, Brown (with Balls as his partner in crime) proceded to sell the family silver (well, gold to be accurate) and spunk it all away over the next 10 years, as well as doubling the National Debt, until the country was just about bankrupt.
Balls is now looking to head down the same well-trodden and disastrous path once again.

But the biggest difference between Bliar & Brown and Ed Balls & Foam Mouth is nobody believes a word they say anymore.

In fact that goes for all three major parties. After the lid was blown on the expenses scandal and all the other rubbish, trust for politicians is at an all time low.

I don't really know of anyone who is going to vote for Labour.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

I don't think that Cameron or Clegg need to worry about the next election with Milliband and Balls the 2 key men for Labour. Between them they are a shambles

Really?

In the last election Cleggs party lost seats and votes and Cameron failed to win an outright majority.

The last election was fought against Gordon Brown.

Given that performance I would say that they have plenty to worry about.

 

[drew]

I would comment but seems this is a Tory binfest so you boys carry on.

 

[supaseagull]

I don't really know of anyone who is going to vote for Labour.

Ironic really...I don't know anyone who'd vote Conservative or Lib Dem so it Looks like a UKIP/BNP/Green Coalition!

 

[Titanic]

OFF! OFF! OFF!!

 

[ROSM]

At the last election, the labour plans put forward would have delivered 18bn of cuts by now. The Tories have delivered 27bn. Out of an economy of 1.5trillion that is nothing more than a rounding error of a difference. So why have we now lost the growth seen in early 2010 and had a double dip recession? The reason is that the Tories talked down the economy so much at the election they have created a self fulfilling prophecy. Also its how the cuts have been targetted that has killed the growth.

Whether you blame balls for the mess we were in, its hard to blame him for the one we are now in. Especially as darling seemed to be on the right path.

 

[Albumen]

People would still vote Tory again? That's what I have trouble digesting.

 

[Don Quixote]

If only the disastrous Brown-Balls years in charge of the economy were all in our imagination too! Unfortunately, they were all tooo real and it's going to take 10 to 15 years to repair the damage, as long as Balls can be kept away from any economic decision-making role.

Do you really believe that the global economy crisis was all down to Brown/Balls?

 

[Perkino]

Really?

In the last election Cleggs party lost seats and votes and Cameron failed to win an outright majority.

The last election was fought against Gordon Brown.

Given that performance I would say that they have plenty to worry about.

He used to be the education secretary, and as a teacher I've heard so much tripe from him. Labour don't give the impression that they can make any positive changes, their only idea seems to be that we spend spend spend and then stick our head in the sand and expect it all one day to be fine. Portsmouth fans are all voting Conservative as they know what happens when you waste your money foolishly

 

[Perkino]

Really?

In the last election Cleggs party lost seats and votes and Cameron failed to win an outright majority.

The last election was fought against Gordon Brown.

Given that performance I would say that they have plenty to worry about.

He used to be the education secretary, and as a teacher I've heard so much tripe from him. Labour don't give the impression that they can make any positive changes, their only idea seems to be that we spend spend spend and then stick our head in the sand and expect it all one day to be fine. Portsmouth fans are all voting Conservative as they know what happens when you waste your money foolishly

 

[ROSM]

their only idea seems to be that we spend spend spend and then stick our head in the sand and expect it all one day to be fine. Portsmouth fans are all voting Conservative as they know what happens when you waste your money foolishly

That's quite worrying. You are a teacher and yet you believe what you are told rather than do research and find out the real situation

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls: No shame over my Nazi uniform | The Sun |News|Politics

I know it's the Sun but I just followed a Twitter link. He also admits diving for a penalty in a match v journalists.

 

[Seagull58]

Do you really believe that the global economy crisis was all down to Brown/Balls?

Brown was empying the coffers, blowing billions, before the credit crunch. The credit crunch, unfortunately, arrived round about the time that Brown had run out of money and was borrowing, borrowing, borrowing, exacerbating the damage.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

I'm a swing voter (voted for all three main parties at one point or another) but will never vote for Labour while Balls is in their leadership team. An utterly toxic individual.

 

[ROSM]

Brown was empying the coffers, blowing billions, before the credit crunch. The credit crunch, unfortunately, arrived round about the time that Brown had run out of money and was borrowing, borrowing, borrowing, exacerbating the damage.

The credit crunch arrived at the time that the national debt was at the same level of GDP that was inherited in 1997

 

[Seagull on the wing]

The first thing to do is to stop spending and wasting money in Europe....Labour ...it was a job for the Kinnock family.....failed politician so he gets a job in Europe by the grace of that idiot Blair. Kinnock gets his wife a job and their two children who employ researchers,sectaries and staff. Now Blair wants to be President of Europe. All parties have promised a referendum but none have delivered.

UKIP will get a lot of votes next election thus destroying the Tories vote,Labour will get votes from the old fashioned...'Labour is for the working man'...(tell that to Tony Blair,the multi-millionaire) who reckons he has the divine right to rule.
Lib Dems have proved they are a washout and are still staunchly behind joining the single currency.

Now the ecomony has just started to pick up.....the Unions are rearing their ugly head and want to strike against the cuts....a case of turkeys voting for Christmas....if they strike there'll have to be more cuts....but commie Bob does'nt have to worry with his gold plated wages/pension.
Yes I'd like to see the working man better off...but get the country right first....it is no good being a bit better off if the country is failing.